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there's no movement and its solid white even if i let it go for a while, algae would be green right? its only growing on the glass i clean, the back is covered with coralline.

I have something growing on my glass it starts off as small white specks and after about 5 days it gets long and stringy. It comes off easily but I have to clean my glass every other day

it has been running for around 3 months now with no problems yet. i thought the same thing but im guessing the water is flowing fast enough to keep the drain holes clean? also if the holes do get a...

its a little hard to see in the pic but the idea is for the water to enter the drain pipes below the surface through the 1/4" holes. this way the water is not falling and making noise. i kept the...

After trying to fit durso stand pipes into my overflow unsuccessfully I came up with this simple solution. Its two 6" sticks of 1" pvc pipe with 1/4" holes drilled into it below the water line. Caps...

great find on the brackish water article rumpy! looks like hypo treatment is just another score for the ats :D thanks for everyones input

has anyone preformed a hyposalinity treatment on a tank with a ats? will the algae adjust to the lower salinity and survive or die off?

My tank is a 125 fowlr with a turf scrubber that's been working great. Everything was fine and healthy till 12.5 ml of iron (5ml per 50gal) was added. So that had to be the culprit?

i dosed my tank with seachem iron as directed on the bottle and the next day my tangs were dead :cry: i dont have an iron test kit but this was the first time any iron has been added to my tank...

how hard is cleaning the tough turf algae off that surface going to be? I have to cut my algae off with a sharp spatula once its growing nice and thick

3 day old screen seems to be coming in nice. I mask the top 3/4 inch off and left it slick to keep algae from blocking my slot.

no my algae held on fine with just roughing up with a hole saw, i was building a bigger scrubber and noticed the untouched areas left by the saw and tried the sand blasting idea just to see if i...

nutrinets is my reason for building the bigger screen. i ran my old screen in the pics above for over a year with 40gph of flow per inch and as much light as i could throw at it without yellowing it...

i have my new scrubber running now its 18"w x 13"h 234 sq inches on my 125g with my old lighting setup on it for now 4x 14w cfl's. im in the process of designing a new lighting setup. question is my...

i sand blasted my new screen and it seems to work great. it didnt tear the screen up at all just made the surface very rough. i cant get my camera to focus in close enough to get a pic

The ends of the half pipe have a seal made of silicon so it dosnt leak at all and i mask off the top 3/4 inch of the screen when i roughed it up so very little algae grows close the the slot. i cut...

I've found a way to hang my screen that makes it easy to remove and clean its 1 1/2 inch pipe split into halves and held in place with 2 zip ties it fits neatly into a bucket for transport to the...

I found this stuff made by 3m says its fda approved for use with food products so I'm thinking it will go inert when dry but it sticks good to the screen material and makes the surface nice and rough...

is there any pros/cons to using a single or double screen? im gonna try a single but i found a great way to stick 2 together if i go back to a double layer. i tried using a soldering iron to fuze 2...

i have been into this hobby for 3 years now and was using a wet /dry filter for the first year and a half or so untill i found out about algae scrubbers. i have to admit i would not still have an...

has anyone found a glue that sticks to the plastic canvas well? i have tried pvc cement and silicone but those dont stick very well.

hey guys, first off i have been running a scrubber on my 125g fowlr for over a year now and never looked back! thanks santa monica for all you've done. just looking for a little input on an idea i...